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B-52 Superfortress (bomber) [r]: United States Air Force heavy bomber, first version flown in 1952, entered service in 1961, expected to stay operational until at least 2030 ^[e]
Barksdale Air Force Base [r]: United States Air Force base in Arkansas, having the headquarters of the Eighth Air Force, commanding strategic bombers, and one of the two B-52 bomber wings ^[e]
Bomber aircraft [r]: Airplanes optimized to deliver weapons to surface targets, rather than to fight other airplanes. ^[e]
C3I-ISR [r]: Add brief definition or description
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base [r]: A large United States Air Force base near Tucson, Arizona; houses the "boneyard" (Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG)) of stored out-of-service aircraft, the 355th Fighter Wing, and the headquarters of the Twelfth Air Force. ^[e]
Diego Garcia [r]: The largest island of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory (B.I.O.T.), which has had all native inhabitants removed, and is a major U.S. military base; it is the base for a prepositioning ship squadron and a forward base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers ^[e]

Guam [r]: Civilian-governed U.S. territory in the geographic Mariana Islands of Micronesia but not part of the political Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; major U.S. military base, including a prepositioning ship squadron and Anderson Air Force Base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers, growing with the transfer of forces from Okinawa. ^[e]
Intercontinental ballistic missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
Louisiana (U.S. state) [r]: medium-sized state in southeast U.S. on the Gulf of Mexico; became a state in 1812 and rebelled during the civil war (1861-1865). ^[e]
Luftwaffe [r]: The German Air Force, both the current and WWII organization; the current usage includes the forces after German unification ^[e]
Minot Air Force Base [r]: Located in North Dakota, it is one of two United States Air Force bases with a B-52 bomber wing, and is administratively under the Eighth Air Force. It also hosts the 91st Space Wing of LGM-30 Minuteman long-range ballistic missiles ^[e]
Ninth Air Force [r]: Add brief definition or description
Norden bombsight [r]: A much-heralded, but relatively ineffective even by WWII standards, aiming device for unguided gravity bombs; required a bomber to stay in vulnerable straight and level flight and was useless against moving targets ^[e]
North Dakota (U.S. state) [r]: a Great Plains state of the U.S.. ^[e]

United States Air Force [r]: Branch of the U.S. armed forces responsible for land-based aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles ^[e]

World War II, air war, Allied offensive counter-air campaign [r]: Air operations specifically intended to counter the air defenses of the WWII Luftwaffe, principally by aggressive fighter tactics and attacks on airfields and aircraft production ^[e]
World War II, air war [r]: Air operations in the Second World War ^[e]

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